"Thyroid disease is very prevalent in this country and one of the most rapidly increasing cancers in this country is thyroid cancer," said Mercy Medical Center oncologist Dr. Kurt Campbell.

Campbell said part of that is due to early detection, which explains why screening is so important.

"For any adult woman, a part of her routine medical screening should include a screening test for thyroid, which would be a measurement of the patient's thyroid-stimulating hormone TCH," Campbell said.

Thyroid cancer is highly treatable with surgery to remove it, and then putting patients on hormone replacement therapy.

"While it's rapidly rising the prevalence as one of the top 10 cancers in this country, few people die from thyroid cancer," Campbell said.

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